Service with a SMILE

This is Customer Service Week at my university, and in great marketing fashion--underscored by that enlightened tendency to define higher education within certain business models--the powers that be have created a flyer that is supposed to "celebrate" and recognize the work of faculty and staff. I guess this is supposed to be a more desirable substitute for giving us merit pay raises.

You can really tell how much they care. It took a long time for someone to come up with those inane "SMILE" and "ROYAL" acronyms. I don't know whether to feel frightened or depressed about these efforts.

I'm not sure, but I think that is my friend Hunter in the center picture.

For more educational fun, check out my previous postings on the spelling challenged, active shooters, misguided diversity, and tobacco spitting.